SEVEN DEADLY CLICHÉS , 1995

The View Factory, Newcastle, NSW Australia

As well as seven framed images of the “Deadly Sins” this exhibition in the View Factory, which doubled as a warehouse cafe bar (one of the first of such configurations in Newcastle), featured large wooden cut-out painted works throughout the space, including fifteen or more friendly dogs. Most notable, was a Mexican sitting under the largest cactus ever seen in New South Wales.

FAYLENE RHEEM 
EXHIBITION 1993

The Female Body

Jan 1993, Contemporary Gallery Newcastle, Australia

The media storm this exhibition created is difficult to quantify. I appeared in major national papers, radio programs in Sydney and Melbourne, Who Magazine (getting more coverage than Kevin Costner who was the biggest movie star at the time), and a full segment on Chanel 9’s A Current Affair. It was imagined and implemented as the perfect illustration of the complexity of postmodern denial of authorship and it was obviously successful as it took me almost a decade to erase the entire enterprise from my CV.

The Artist's Book
Launched at the exhibition was Faylene Rheem's (now infamous) limited edition book How to Draw Women. Constructed with images mostly scanned from how-to-draw books, it was presented in a style somewhere between Walter Foster's "How to Draw ..." books and popular or trashy magazines such as Picture Magazine. Not that the presentation was consistent, since each page was made up in familiar ransom-note style as evidence and parody of the many computer graphic programs used to create the book. Naturally, the book featured no original drawing at all and any manipulation of the images was done with one megabyte of computer memory, considered powerful at the time. Obviously, graphic or drawing programs have advanced greatly since the book was created in 1992. Two copies of the book are in the National Gallery of Australia Collection, several State galleries, the Harvard University Library Special Collections in the USA and most significant collections of artist’s books in Australia.

Solo Exhibition COOKS HILL GALLERIES, NEWCASTLE AUSTRALIA, 1988

Solo exhibition COOKS HILL GALLERIES, Newcastle, Australia 1987

Life size figures, enamel on shaped marine wood, Canberra 1985/6

Ross Woodrow solo exhibition 1982 Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane.

Catalogue below;

Installation views views below and selected works

Dressmaker's Desire,
GIO Art Award, 1982
(Collection: Suncorp Queensland)

Ross Woodrow solo exhibition 1981 ULMARRA GALLERY, Gold Coast, Queensland

Ross Woodrow solo exhibition 1980 at STUDIO ZERO, Gold Coast, Queensland.

Invitation

Photographer's Studio 1979 (private collection, Gold Coast) [reproduced in Art and Australia]

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